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Shipping firms augmenting strength with robotic exoskeleton

Ok so we're a few steps away from adding all the armour, repulsor jets, pop-up missiles and wise-cracking, self-destructive pilot or your average Iron Man suit, but some firms are really starting to push us in the direction of a fully functioning exoskeleton. For example, Korean shipping giant Dawewoo Shipbuilding, …

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Verizon on why it’s throttling ‘legacy’ customers

Here in the EU, we're relatively protected against encroachments against net neutrality, partly because there's a lot of other countries to help defend the principle even if one doesn't like it. Over in the US however, the regulatory hurdles are far fewer and it's led to companies like Verizon throttling Netflix and …

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Gone Home developer announces new story-driven game

Developer of last year's hit Gone Home, The Fullbright Company, now renamed just Fullbright, has announced that it's working on a new story-driven experience and this time it's going to have other people in it, as along with the announcement comes a job posting for a high-fidelity, character animator. “Going …

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Ganondorf playable in Hyrule Warriors

It seems like Link's age old enemy, Ganondorf, won't be the main antagonist of upcoming Wii U exclusive, Hyrule Warriors, as he's actually one of the characters you can use to battle your way through hordes of enemies. Nintendo has shown him off in a new trailer, wielding an impressive …

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Chinese government blocks foreign anti-virus firms

China has continued its general consolidation inward when it comes to the internet and has announced that both Symantec and Kapersky anti-virus are no longer approved vendors. Instead, it's promoting the use of Chinese anti-malware companies, adding five to its list of recommended software providers. The news comes out of …

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Twitter sees sharp increase in government data requests

Governments around the world have shown much more interest in gathering the details of Twitter users over the past six months, according to the social network. In a recent report, it announced that year on year, data requests have increased by almost half. As The Telegraph explains, in 2014 so …

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Sunset Overdrive could have White Xbox One bundle

Sunset Overdrive is an upcoming Xbox One exclusive, set for release this October, but for its console bundle, it might come with quite a unique looking system. Over at French retailer Micromania, a listing has appeared for the game that suggests it could come with a White Xbox One. This …

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Pewdiepie has an iOS app now

If you didn't think accessing the videos of the world's most subscribed Youtuber Pewdiepie was easy enough before, now you can do so through his official iPhone app, which gives you access to his videos and lets you select your favourites in a pseudo-bro playlist. Developed in conjunction with Maker …

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GTA V looks likely to get single player zombie DLC

Whether we like or not, zombies are a mainstream thing now, sitting right alongside vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein's creation, the mummy and many other iconic monsters of stage and screen – which is why they feel a bit overdone at the moment. However, that doesn't look likely to stop Rockstar from …

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NASA’s next Mars rover will test basic terraforming

The Mars Curiosity rover is a not-so-little badass, having taken astounding pictures of the surface of the red planet, zapped rocks with lasers to find out their chemical components and given us hope that we might one day find life on the seemingly dead world. It's older cousin, Opportunity, is …

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CIA backtracks, admits it spied on US senate

Despite denying it for months, the director of the US' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), admitted yesterday that his organisation had spied on senate staff members while they were using specific systems set up to allow them to investigate claims of torture at the CIA. Email searchers and keyword filtering took …

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Snapchat seeks funding to boost value to $10 billion

It's not uncommon these days for relatively new companies to be valued in the billions. It wasn't that long ago that we threw up our arms in protest at the two year old Oculus VR being bought up by Facebook for $2 billion, but already a company is looking to eclipse …

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Shadow of Mordor trailer shows powers of the wraith

Upcoming Assassin's Creed, fantasy mashup, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor has a new trailer out, this time showing us some more of the abilities our protagonist Talion can perform when he utilises his wraith super powers, controlling and manipulating the orcs as he fights his way up the chain of command …

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NASA begrudgingly agrees microwave space thruster works

Space exploration costs billions and billions of dollars, which is why it's serious business. NASA is firmly of that mind set and doesn't go about validating bogus theories willy nilly, but this week it's – seemingly begrudgingly – lent credence to the practical application of a microwave space drive that …

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Logitech launches Hyperion Fury ‘worlds fastest mouse’

Logitech has announced a new gaming mouse in its peripheral line-up, declaring it the “World's Fastest Gaming Mouse.” It's called the G402 Hyperion Fury and while you'd think it would be highly sensitive, this one actually tops out at 4,000 DPI, but features a new sensor technology for faster and …

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Squad updates Kerbal Spacesuit for future cinematics

Squad, developers of Kerbal Space program, may have only just sent out the 0.24 update that added contracts, funds and reputation to the game's already near-endless career mode, but it's already hinted at another upcoming release. This time it's entirely visual, but it's not better looking rockets or planets, but …

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Youporn found a team to sponsor, it’s not yours

One of our most popular stories this year, involved Pornography streaming site owners, Youporn, announcing that it was looking to sponsor an esports team. Unfortunately for the many of you that got in touch, or professed your interest on our Facebook page, it looks like Youporn has found a team. …

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Opportunity Rover breaks Mars distance record

Curiosity might be the current darling of the science world, having only landed on Mars in 2012, but its older brother Opportunity is making headlines today, because it just became the most travelled Rover in the history of space exploration, beating out the Soviet Union Lunokhod 2, which landed on …

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Facebook to shut down gift shop

Facebook has announced that it's going to shut down its voucher filled gift shop after just a few years of operation. However, that's not the end of the experiment, with the social network stating that it has plans to improve on what it's offered before. “We'll be using everything we learned …

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UK could lead the way on driverless cars

We're on the cusp of fully automated vehicles, with manufacturers pushing ever more advanced features like lane-assist and automatic braking and Google showing off fully working, entirely autonomous prototypes to the world, but there's one thing holding them back from the next stage of adoption: legislation. While the US has …

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